LONDON.- Bloomberg New Contemporaries announces this year's selected artists. The panel comprising Hurvin Anderson, Jessie Flood-Paddock (New Contemporaries 2006) and Simon Starling (New Contemporaries 1994) have chosen 37 artists from over 1,600 submissions.
Selected artists for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015 are: S?an Astley, Kevin Boyd, Lydia Brockless, Kanad Chakrabarti, James William Collins, Andrei Costache, Julia Curtin, Abri de Swardt, Melanie Eckersley, Jamie Fitzpatrick, Justin Fitzpatrick, Hannah Ford, Sophie Giller, Richard Hards, Juntae TJ Hwang, Jasmine Johnson, Tomomi Koseki, Hilde Krohn Huse, Pandora Lavender, Jin Han Lee, Hugo Lopez Ayuso, Beatrice-Lily Lorigan, Scott Lyman, Scott Mason, Oliver McConnie, Mandy Niewohner, Hamish Pearch, Neal Rock, Conor Rogers, Katie Schwab, Tim Simmons, David Cyrus Smith, Francisco Sousa Lobo, Aaron Wells, Morgan Wills, Mona Yoo and Andrea Zucchini.
With Bloomberg's support of New Contemporaries now in its 15th year, the resulting touring exhibition will launch in Nottingham across artist-led spaces One Thoresby Street, Backlit and Primary from 18 September to end of October'15, supported by additional activity at Nottingham Contemporary, New Art Exchange and Nottingham Castle; before touring to ICA, London from 24 November'15 to end of January'16.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015 brings together artists working across a range of media with materiality, form and the process of making key to this year's selected works. The resulting exhibition tackles an equally diverse range of subjects, from international gender perceptions to the legacy of conceptual art practices.
Kirsty Ogg, Director, New Contemporaries says 'New Contemporaries continues to be the leading and longest-running open submission, showcasing some of the most dynamic and engaging work emerging from British art schools. This year is no exception, with a strong sculptural presence that deals with materiality and form; painting that tackles the medium’s rich history; moving image critiquing current societal attitudes to socio-economic and gender differences; as well as photography, printmaking and works on paper. In addition to revealing a process of transformation in the production of the work, many of the works selected this year contain layers of narrative'.
